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|url=http://med.stanford.edu/newborns/professional-education/circumcision.html
|title=Neonatal Circumcision: An Audiovisual Primer
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|publisher=Stanford School of Medicine
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|accessdate=2019-10-01
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→Lack of a frenulum
|DOI=10.1542/peds.105.3.681
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}}</ref> It has been noted that the wound where the frenulum was amputated is usually slower to heal than the wound where the [[foreskin]] was amputated.
The frenulum may be missing in some males for a few reasons.
Rarely, boys are born with a foreskin but without a frenulum. This condition causes no issues and permits unusually complete retraction of the [[foreskin]].
It may be missing in men who were [[circumcised]] at birth, as it is often crushed and cut away, or broken during infant [[circumcision]]. Men who are circumcised as adults may specify whether or not they wish to preserve their frenulum. The frenulum was reported to be cut in 26.7%, 20%, and 33.33% of [[circumcised]] patients in various surveys.<ref name="Griffin-Kroovand1990"/><ref name="Gary2000"/>